Crooks and Liars

Days after unionized workers at the Big Three automakers voted to ratify their new contracts—secured after the United Auto Workers staged an innovative "stand up strike" that lasted six weeks—the union made clear on Wednesday it has no plans to stop its…

Fox contributor Patrick Murphy rightfully explained to his cohost Rachel Campos-Duffy this Thursday that advertisers leaving X have nothing to do with free speech. It's all about the free market. Don't expect it to make a dent in that rock-hard noggin of hers…

I’ve long believed that the people most intent on policing other people’s sex lives are reacting to something in themselves they think should be restrained. Nothing confirms that theory more than this story about two conservative icons allegedly behaving…

Tucker Carlson was quietly removed from the board of the media organization he co-founded in 2011—The Daily Caller, according to a previously unreported tax filing. Via the Daily Beast:…

We don't really do a lot of obituary posts on here, but it seems wrong to let the death of 100-year old Henry Kissinger pass without at least acknowledging the sins of his youth.…

Now that the raging dumpster fire (h/t Driftglass) George Santos is likely going bye-bye, out from under his shadow emerges Tennessee MAGAt Andy Ogles. We've covered Ogles and his (alleged!) wild fabrications before. Now Channel 5's Phil Williams is asking…

Donald Trump, the most mentally unstable and uncontrollable client in recent memory, is gagged once again in his New York fraud trial. After a lengthy appeals court hearing and the prosecution publicizing the transcription of hundreds of pages of threats…

Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, which he launched to allow him to rage against his successor and perceived enemies daily, to lash out at MSNBC for daring to be critical of the former President. You can't make this stuff up. On top…

Top Democrats on Wednesday mocked Republicans for a "slow start" to their impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden.…

Ohio’s sprawling 12th district was thrown together by the gerrymanderers in the state legislature from bits and pieces of various leftover areas— from the suburbs of Columbus, huge swathes of Appalachia and exurbs of Akron and Canton. They certainly…

Tiger Beat on the Potomac (AKA Politico, thanks Charlie Pierce!) has the bookies on speed dial:…

We haven't heard Republicans claim to be the party of law and order for a while now. Sure, they hint at it occasionally, but it's not part of their mantra like it used to be. If I'm not mistaken, Donald J. Trump, who is now facing 91 felony counts, started…

Oh sure, that's just what we need in the healthcare system-- another megacorp behemoth that's looking to expand the corrupt Medicare Advantage plan. Calling Lina Khan.... Via Reuters:…

The Republican playbook is always to underfund a government program, then complain that the resulting backlogs mean that government programs just don't work.…

At The New York Times DealBook Summit, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked by Andrew Ross Sorkin about attacks from ousted ex-Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy on President Biden’s negotiating skills. In effect, McCarthy was claiming Biden is too old to…

emptywheel - Abbe Lowell calls Comer's bluff;…

Michelle Wolf, this week's host for The Daily Show, does a woman on the street thing to determine if white women are getting a bad rap. They look at the most white woman thing they've done to releasing their inner Karen. They even talked about whether men…

Space Karen Elon Musk threw a giant fit at the New York Times Dealbook Summit on Wednesday. This entire clip is bonkerstown, population 2 (Elon and Linda X, who I am convinced is being held hostage).…

I knew when Fox was forced to fire Tucker Carlson that he would be replaced with Jesse Watters. Jesse is the only completely reliable source of vile they had on deck.…

So Elon Musk returned from the Middle East to inspect the devastation in Israel from the Hamas attack, and immediately pivoted to Pizzagate, as one does:…

Greene has long been spreading Russian propaganda, even before the war in Ukraine began. Now, however, she's openly spreading Russian disinformation. The other day she posted this on the platform formerly known as Twitter:…

Former President Donald Trump is one of the most predictable men on Earth. While Trump was out there beating up on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Americans for Prosperity, the political arm of the influential Koch network, threw its endorsement and all of those…

Donald Trump has maintained dominance in Republican presidential primary polling, but the big-money Republicans who don’t think he’s a good general election candidate have kept looking for someone to knock him down. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fizzled. Sen.…

Senator John Kennedy (NRA-LA) was questioning Dr. Megan Ranney of the Yale School of Public Health about the causes of shootings in Chicago. Kennedy thought he could play a little game of Gotcha with Ranney, but he grossly underestimated her caliber.…

You know things would go really badly for Republicans if Hunter Biden were allowed to testify publicly, or we wouldn't be watching segments like this one on Fox "news."…